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The Exodus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 674 ratings — published 2017
Ancient Israel's Neighbors (Essentials of Biblical Studies)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.25 — 4 ratings — published
Jesus Before the Gospels: How the Earliest Christians Remembered, Changed, and Invented Their Stories of the Savior (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,962 ratings — published 2016
Jonathan Loved David: Homosexuality in Biblical Times (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.22 — 50 ratings — published 1978
Did God Have a Wife? Archaeology and Folk Religion in Ancient Israel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.93 — 307 ratings — published 2005
Child Sacrifice in Ancient Israel (Explorations in Ancient Near Eastern Civilizations)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.53 — 15 ratings — published
Jesus the Miracle Worker: A Historical & Theological Study (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.10 — 30 ratings — published 1999
David and Solomon: In Search of the Bible's Sacred Kings and the Roots of the Western Tradition (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.23 — 255 ratings — published 2006
The Grammar of Messianism: An Ancient Jewish Political Idiom and Its Users (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.47 — 15 ratings — published
Mary in Early Christian Faith and Devotion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 40 ratings — published
The Cities That Built the Bible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.94 — 176 ratings — published 2016
Reading the Fractures of Genesis: Historical and Literary Approaches (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.50 — 8 ratings — published 1996
King Josiah of Judah: The Lost Messiah of Israel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2001
The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,484 ratings — published 2001
The Early History of God: Yahweh and the Other Deities in Ancient Israel (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.06 — 508 ratings — published 1990
The Historical David: The Real Life of an Invented Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.95 — 283 ratings — published 2013
Just James: The Brother of Jesus in History and Tradition (Studies on Personalities of the New Testament)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 1997
The Origins of Judaism: An Archaeological-Historical Reappraisal (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.43 — 90 ratings — published 2022
The Idea of Israel in Second Temple Judaism: A New Theory of People, Exile, and Israelite Identity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.65 — 55 ratings — published
The Resurrection of Jesus: Apologetics, Polemics, History (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.47 — 177 ratings — published
What's Divine about Divine Law?: Early Perspectives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.52 — 29 ratings — published 2015
The Jesus Dynasty: The Hidden History of Jesus, His Royal Family and the Birth of Christianity (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,120 ratings — published 2006
James the Brother of Jesus: The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.78 — 293 ratings — published 1996
Jesus: Apocalyptic Prophet of the New Millennium (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,396 ratings — published 1999
Genesis and the Moses Story: Israel's Dual Origins in the Hebrew Bible (Siphrut: Literature and Theology of the Hebrew Scriptures)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.71 — 7 ratings — published 2010
One God, One Lord: Early Christian Devotion and Ancient Jewish Monotheism (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.34 — 58 ratings — published 1988
Christology in the Making: A New Testament Inquiry into the Origins of the Doctrine of the Incarnation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.92 — 73 ratings — published 1980
The Next Quest for the Historical Jesus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.00 — 5 ratings — published
Writing and Rewriting the Gospels: John and the Synoptics (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.23 — 26 ratings — published
A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,124 ratings — published 2019
From Jesus to Christ: The Origins of the New Testament Images of Christ (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.04 — 366 ratings — published 1988
Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.08 — 196 ratings — published 1977
Miracles and Wonder: The Historical Mystery of Jesus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,083 ratings — published 2025
The Death of the Messiah, From Gethsemane to the Grave, Volume 1: A Commentary on the Passion Narratives in the Four Gospels (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.41 — 105 ratings — published
Boy Jesus: Growing Up Judean in Turbulent Times (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.05 — 38 ratings — published 2025
The Resurrection of the Son of God (Christian Origins and the Question of God, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.53 — 2,213 ratings — published 2003
A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus, Volume I - The Roots of the Problem and the Person (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.34 — 390 ratings — published 1991
The Burial of Jesus: What Does History Have to Do with Faith? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.83 — 12 ratings — published 2012
New Testament History: The Jews, The Romans, And the Church (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.29 — 17 ratings — published
The Synoptic Problem: Four Views (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.20 — 44 ratings — published
Zealot: The Life and Times of Jesus of Nazareth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.86 — 73,467 ratings — published 2013
The Power of Parable: How Fiction by Jesus Became Fiction about Jesus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.16 — 517 ratings — published 2012
The Resurrection: History and Myth (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.73 — 89 ratings — published 2008
Greeks, Romans, Jews: Currents of Culture and Belief in the New Testament World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 4.20 — 5 ratings — published 1992
Rome and Jerusalem: The Clash of Ancient Civilizations (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as secular-bible-study)
avg rating 3.95 — 818 ratings — published 2007
